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^.nd the main reason for such counsels consist^
in the objective conditions of the masses and
the subjective mood of its illustrious author.

That our unhappy world is standing today
at cross-roads cannot be denied. It needs a
fundamental change. Capitalism in its onword
toarch and in its mad rush for profits and
dividends is crushing the lives of millions. Capitalism

itself has reached a stage when its progress
within the frameworfe it has created has become
well-nigh impossible. Capitalism must either give
place to a better otder of society or else our

civilisation must go down and perish like the
civilisations of old. Desperate conditions of
masses will lead them to adopt revolutionary
and desperate methods and capitalism too will
react with its own drastic measures in defence
of reacton. Our world needs an overhauling. And
Marx suggests his own panacea. Behind this
panacea stands a philosophy^ a philosophy of
despair* One mast either accept it or evolve a
better philosophy, for the world must ever move
on. Bertrand Russell remarkss